US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 27 for "Load fusion" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,464, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Load fusion" was invented by Alexander Toufic Freij (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Raymond Poremba (Bellevue, Wash.), Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Wash.) and Onur Kayiran (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for load fusion. In an explicit approach, a first load operation and a second load operation, in a stream of operations, are replaced with a single load operation. One or more operations, configured to move and shift a value stored in a destination register of the single load operation, are inserte...